Posted on 02/14/2024 9:30:31 AM PST by george76
I believe all wild American carnivores are by nature afraid of people. Even the polar bear, who is the most vicious!
I have ran into black bears, coyotes and bobcats and they all ran away (pretty fast!). Cougar is very hard to see, it sees you before you ever see it and makes sure you will never even see it.
The only fatal accidents happened when people got scared and tried to run away! Carnivore instinct is to chase whatever tries to run away! And all of them are a lot faster than people, so we have no chance!
Another problems can happen when you run into mother with pups, the animal is sick (rabies!) or if you somehow get too close to it so it decides to fight for life instead to run away!
But overall animal attacks on people are very rare.
When i was in Alaska, I was told that the most deadly animal is moose!
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My old neighbor was a retired cop and he said they had reports of mountain lions in West Iowa for years. He said they found a dead great Dane that one had killed and his nder a brush pile.
And just how common, pray tell, are un-vicious mountain lion attacks?
Them’s the ones when they play with you, like a mouse, for a while, then lose interest and leave.
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